Scaling up software architecture analysis

  • Authors:

  • Rick Kazman;Michael Gagliardi;William Wood

  • Affiliations:

  • Dept. of Information Technology Management, University of Hawaii, 2404 Maile Way, Honolulu, HI 96825, USA and Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 4500 5th Ave., Pittsburgh, ...;Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 4500 5th Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA;Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 4500 5th Ave., Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Systems and Software
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

This paper will show how architecture design and analysis techniques rest on a small number of foundational principles. We will show how those principles have been instantiated as a core set of techniques. These techniques, combined together, have resulted in several highly successful architecture analysis and design methods. Finally, we will show how these foundations, and the techniques that instantiate them, can be re-combined for new purposes addressing problems of ever-increasing scale, specifically: addressing the highly complex problems of analyzing software-intensive ecosystems.